2-3 weeks
Influenza is a highly infectious disease, even when the patient is recovering (unlike many other Infectious Diseases which quit being infectious when the patient begins to recover).
10 days
Patient is carrier of typhoid fever for few weeks. Many asymptomatic cases of typhoid are also carriers of typhoid for few weeks. Occasionally the person becomes chronic carrier of typhoid bacteria. Such people are very dangerous, when they work in cooking profession and have poor personal hygiene. You should read the story of Typhoid Mary from USA.
In the first week of typhoid fever, there is bacteremia. So many organs and systems can be affected by typhoid bacteria. After one week the bacteria settle for the small intestine of the patient, though the whole body is affected by typhoid toxins.
In the 19th century there were lots of different types of disease but the most common ones are: tuberculosis, typhoid, scarlet fever and measles and hundreds of thousands of people died from these diseases.
You have many brands for typhoid injections made from surface antigen of typhoid bacteria.
five types of typhoid
Influenza is a highly infectious disease, even when the patient is recovering (unlike many other Infectious Diseases which quit being infectious when the patient begins to recover).
as many as 1 every 3 people get typhoid fever
2-3 days
as many as 1 every 3 people get typhoid fever
Most probably Mary Mallon had typhoid before she came to America. She probably brought the typhoid from Ireland. She was one of the many asymptomatic carriers of typhoid.